Seven Baptists with Alabama ties were among 70 new missionaries appointed in a July 13 International Mission Board (IMB) service.
The new works talked briefly about how God called them to overseas service.
Ronald David and Faye Rogers, both natives of Gadsden, were reappointed, this time to Eastern South America. She will be working in community and home outreach, while her husband will be working in theological education.
His education includes Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn., and Mid America Baptist Theological Seminary, Germantown, Tenn. She was educated at Gadsden State Community College, Jacksonville State University and Escola de Portugues e Orientac, Brazil.
Montgomery native John Perkins and his wife, Sarah, were appointed to Western Europe in field support, John Perkins was educated at Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss.; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; and the Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans. Sarah Perkins received degrees from Mississippi College, Southern Seminary, the University of Memphis and the University of Mississippi.
Bryan Clayton Thompson, a native of Dothan, and his wife, Christy Dawne Thompson, were appointed to Eastern South America. He will work in evangelism and church planting, and she will do community and home ministry. His education includes Tennessee Temple University, Chattanooga, Tenn.; the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Temple Baptist Seminary, Chattanooga; and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, N.C. Her education includes Jacksonville State University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Temple Baptist Seminary and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Also appointed was Jesse Lee Hoyer, a former resident of Tuscaloosa. She will serve in the IMB’s Central and Eastern Europe region. Hoyer, who works in the youth and children’s ministry, is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga., and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
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